Chapter 502: Heavy Losses
No one can imagine that the group of drug dealers in the dark town will be so vicious, at least all the US troops, including Hovington, will not think of it, especially after the disaster, the US military instinctively relaxed, in their opinion, maybe there are still traps ahead, but now they are camped in place, there will never be another catastrophe from the sky, burying dozens of tanks at once, killing four helicopters, and making the US military lose thousands of people is already a huge amount, even if there are traps, it will definitely not catch up with this scale, so after the fire was extinguished, almost all the US troops relaxed, after making sure that the tanks were not destroyedCountless people spontaneously gathered towards dozens of big pits, and no matter how heavy the tanks were? They have tens of thousands of US troops here, and they only need to dispatch a few thousand people to lift those tanks out of the big pits. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The speed of the U.S. military is extremely fast and their mentality is relatively relaxed, but what they never expected is that dozens of big pits are just the most basic traps, and the real killing move is a large number of bombs at the bottom of the pits!
Really a lot of bombs.
Portable bombs, grenades, and dense gunpowder can be determined by just looking at the big pit where the tank company commander is located, and there will definitely be no second scenery under each big pit.
Run!
Run!
Once a bomb of this magnitude explodes, all those who approach it will not end well, even if the enemy only detonates the explosives of a crater, a violent explosion is enough to detonate all the nearby bombs, compared to the helicopter falling just now, this is the real disaster.
But the U.S. military found out a little too late after all.
The U.S. troops in the front row closest to the pit turned their heads and fled, but the people in the back didn't know what was going on, they just subconsciously inquired, and the bomb at the bottom of the pit exploded as the tank of the tank company commander hit the bottom of the pit hard!
World shaking!
It's definitely an earth-shattering bang.
Hundreds of meters of dense forest turned into ashes in the explosion, the entire dense forest trembled in the explosion, billowing smoke and dust and broken tree corpses flew up together, the solid ground was blasted out of countless shocking cracks, a few seconds ago belonged to the US military panic screams completely disappeared in the explosion, after the fire, countless US troops were directly wiped out, dozens of main battle tanks were blown into a pile of scrap metal.
In the explosion, there were no serious injuries, only death.
The explosion formed a terrifying shock wave visible to the naked eye, swallowing all the nearby American troops, and the originally lively soldiers turned into pieces of corpses before they even had time to scream.
This is the most brutal destruction, vicious and insidious.
In the explosion, at least thousands of US troops were killed alive and shattered, and many of them could not even find the remains of their bodies.
To the death, none of these American troops could fire a single shot.
They have not even seen the face of the enemy, and even at this moment, after huge losses, they are still two kilometers away from the enemy.
Two kilometers is just a charge distance for the army, but now looking at a flat land hundreds of meters in sight and the dense forest beyond the flat land, every American soldier has a deep fear and panic in their eyes, in their eyes, the last two kilometers of the road is almost a death passage full of evil, waiting for everyone to die.
All of a sudden, tens of thousands of U.S. troops stayed where they were, never daring to take a step forward, and the scene was quiet and terrifying.
The whistling of the rotors broke the silence.
Over the dense forest, eight helicopters landed on the ground in turn, hundreds of meters of dense forest were razed to the ground, but provided a landing place for these helicopters, when the helicopter was not stable, the helicopter door in the center was slammed open, the real governor Hovington roared and rushed out of the cabin, the burly body did not know whether it was because of the air flow brought by the rotors or because the blow was too big and shook badly, he barely stood on the ground, looking at everything around him with a dull face, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a while.
"Mr. Governor..."
Brigadier General Solo came to Hovington and shouted cautiously.
"I'm fine, go, go and count the losses, and report to me as soon as possible. ”
Hovinton was shocked, snapped back to his senses, grabbed Brigadier General Solo's collar and roared.
"Yes!"
The brigadier general was cold, and responded helplessly, where do you need statistics, just looking at the scene of the scene, you know that the losses this time have reached a number that everyone present can not bear, these are his descendants, the losses are so heavy, but in front of Hovinton, he couldn't have a seizure, and under the depression in his heart, the brigadier general's face was pale, and he was almost depressed and wanted to vomit blood.
Hovington asked Brigadier General Solo for help, took two steps forward, and then sat on the ground without an image, staring at everything in front of him with a blank look.
He can't even care about anger now, some just regret, endless regret, if he had known that the war in the dark town would become like this, he would not have come here if he was killed, but now regret is obviously useless, taking back the dark town is his only chance.
Hovington doesn't know how big this chance is, but judging from the vicious traps around the dark town, the enemy has obviously been prepared, the big crater on the ground, the explosion just now, are constantly hitting his confidence, and now, not only the US army, even Hovington is a little panicked and numb, but just like what he said to Solo, he has no choice, even if he dies here, he has no choice, if he can't get back the dark town, he will lose all his authority, Hovington has been in power for so long, once he loses power, he will face a situation that is more uncomfortable than death, at least those wealthy families who once firmly supported him and paid a lot of money will make him worse than dead, so even if he can't get back the dark town, even if he dies here, he must start a war.
When war breaks out, at least there is a chance to win, and if he retreats, then he has nothing.
Brigadier General Solo moved quickly, waved his hand to call several of his henchmen, and after conveying Hovinton's order, he silently waited for news from his subordinates.
For them, war may still be inevitable, but at least for now, as long as they are not allowed to move forward, even if it is good to delay for a little longer.
Solo looked at the relieved appearance of most of the American troops, and secretly smiled bitterly, the second-line troops are not the real main elite after all, he can be sure that if all this happened to the Third Field Army today, even if it can still affect them, it will definitely not make them completely lose their desire to fight like the current American army.
That is the real elite, even if the commander issued countless messy death orders, when the morale was completely lost, the Third Field Army still made the group of drug dealers pay more than half of the casualties in the war in the dark town, that kind of war, if the current second-line troops were replaced, the casualties of that group of drug dealers would not even exceed 10,000.
Time ticks by.
It had been early morning and morning in the dense forests of the dark town.
The sun is getting more and more dazzling.
While Brigadier General Solo was drowsy, his men finally counted the casualties completely.
Several colonels stood near Brigadier General Solo, tugging and pulling, their eyes flashing, as if they were arguing about something, their eyes looked in the direction of Brigadier General Solo from time to time, and they hesitated, but they refused to come.
Brigadier General Zoro, who was in a daze, shook his head to sober himself up, and roared violently: "What the hell are you doing? Get out of here for me immediately, all of them come here!"
The Brigadier General's roar was very loud, and it was not until the roar exited that he realized that Governor Hovington was near him, and he was shocked, and he subconsciously turned his head to look at Hovinton, only to find that Mr. Governor was still sitting in place in a lost spirit, without even raising his head.
Brigadier General Solo's heart sank again, he couldn't imagine that the trap of the dark town had dealt such a serious blow to Governor Hovinton, but now was obviously not the time to comfort him, the brigadier took a deep breath, looked at the several colonels who were grinding to his side, and asked in a deep voice: "Have the casualties been counted?"
Several colonels looked gloomy and looked at each other, and none of them dared to speak first.
Brigadier General Solo was furious again, his temper was already hot, if it was usual, his subordinates dared to ink so much in front of him, he would have already started to go up and slap him, but now that the war is imminent, his words and deeds may affect the tens of thousands of American troops below, so he can only suppress his anger at the moment, and said slowly: "Let's say, I know that the losses this time are very serious, but this is the enemy is too cunning, I won't blame you." ”
Even though he said this, the muscles at the corners of his mouth twitched uncontrollably.
He did know that the loss was extremely serious, but seeing the expression of his extremely subordinate, he understood that this loss was likely to be more serious than he expected.
Several colonels glanced at each other again, and when Brigadier General Solo's eyes were already showing obvious irritability, one of the oldest colonels finally spoke: "General, this time we have suffered a lot of losses, four helicopters, dozens of main battle tanks and armored vehicles have all been wiped out, this is something that everyone can see, in addition, the biggest losses are mainly the sacrifices of soldiers, we just counted it, probably... Probably..."
The more the colonel spoke, the paler his expression became, and finally he spoke in a tone that almost cried: "From the fall of the helicopter to the explosion of the tank company, two losses, our army has lost a total of 6,312 American troops, of which 3,000 belong to the remnants of the field regiment, and more than 3,000 people have been wounded, of which more than 1,500 American troops have been seriously injured and have lost their combat capability. ”
Six thousand American troops died.
Among them is the elite of the 3,000 field regiments, which is currently the most effective at the moment.
Fifteen hundred American troops were seriously wounded...
Solo's eyes went dark, and he almost fainted.
This means that before the war began, they lost nearly 8,000 men.
This number may not seem like much, but if nearly 8,000 people stand in a row, the length can almost be said to be boundless, which is equivalent to the strength of an elite division!
In this counterattack, the total number of them is only more than 30,000 people, plus the infantry division that will arrive here in a few hours, it is only in the early 40,000s, and now before the battle, the manpower has lost one-fifth, which is definitely a heavy blow for the US army.
Solo was in a cold sweat, and before he could come back to his senses, a voice sounded directly from behind him, so frightened that he almost lost his soul: "Have the casualties been counted?"
Solo jumped up from the ground all of a sudden, hurriedly turned around, looked at Hovington who suddenly appeared behind him, opened his mouth, and stammered: "Ah, Mr. Governor, we..."
"How's the loss? Solo, I want to be honest, you can't lie to me, and at a time like this, it won't do you any good to deceive me!"
Hovinton's tone was low, but his eyes were sharp.
"We... This one... Mr. Governor..."
Solo opened his mouth, and finally smiled bitterly, and said honestly: "It's a pity that this time our losses are unexpectedly heavy, nearly eight thousand fighters are now incapacitated, and there are only more than a thousand wounded among them..."
"Lost 8,000 U.S. troops?"
Hovington interrupted Brigadier General Solo and asked.
"This... Yes. ”
Solo broke out in a cold sweat, waiting for Hovington to vent his anger at him.
As a result, Hovinton was very calm, just nodded briefly and said: "Okay, I understand, Brigadier General Solo, you go and do a good job of ideological work for the soldiers, the war is about to start, no matter what, you can't let them go to the battlefield with the burden of thought, you must appease them, do you understand?"
"Yes, I understand, I'll go right away!"
Brigadier General Solo nodded, turned around and walked directly to the U.S. camp.
But he had barely taken a few steps when a strange sound sounded behind him.
"Poof!"
The subtle sound made Brigadier General Solo jerk his head back.
In the sight, Governor Hovinton, who looked calm, suddenly spat out a large mouthful of blood, and his body fell directly to the sky.
"Mr. Governor!!"
The drastic change in expression rushed out at once, holding Hovinton in his arms.
Now it seems that the powerful governor needs comfort even more than an ordinary soldier.